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To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.

med by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.

Gray or white with age; hoary. Whose beard with age is hoar. Coleridge. Old trees with trunks all hoar. Byron.

lownish person; a rustic. Milton. Hobnail liver (Med.), a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver.

A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large. [New Eng.] Bartlett.

e (Baseball), the base at which the batsman stands and which is the last goal in making a run. -- Home farm, grounds, etc., the farm, grounds, etc., adjacent to the residence of the owner. -- Home lot, an inclosed plot on which the owner's home stands. [U. S.] -- Home rule, rule or government of an appendent or depen…

Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.

ion in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis.

A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech. Hop hornbe…

. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.

l America (Trianthema monogymnum). -- Horse race, a race by horses; a match of horses in running or trotting. -- Horse racing, the practice of racing with horses. -- Horse railroad, a railroad on which the cars are drawn by horses; -- in England, and sometimes in the United States, called a tramway. -- Horse run (C…

d crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly.

r other garments. Dan. iii. 21. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. Shak.

A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle. To follow the hounds, to hunt with hounds.

ts, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.

A human being. [Colloq.] Sprung of humans that inhabit earth. Chapman. We humans often find ourselves in strange position. Prof. Wilson.

A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer. [Obs.] Shak.

In India, a running footman; a messenger. [Written also hurkaroo.]

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

The supporting frame of a run of millstones. Husks of the prodigal son (Bot.), the pods of the carob tree. See Carob.